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Dutch model Ivana Smit was found dead on the balcony of a condominium in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 7, 2017. (Instagram pic) PETALING JAYA: The Kuala Lumpur Coroner’s Court will rule on Friday how Dutch model Ivana Smit died two years ago, an infamous case which grabbed the headlines over salacious threesomes and drug use....

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Pasir Salak MP Tajuddin Abdul Rahman today apologised for his outbursts during the trial of his defamation suit at the Kuala Lumpur High Court. “I apologised to the court as this is my first time in court. I’m not accustomed to it (court procedures),” he said after being reprimanded by Kuala Lumpur High Court judge...

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Lawyer Sankara N Nair (above) has urged Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and her husband PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to push for a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on the judiciary. This comes after Court of Appeal judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer alleged that members of the judiciary had conspired with nominees of politicians...

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PETALING JAYA: Lawyers for DAP deputy secretary-general Teresa Kok today followed up on her apology demand from a Selangor PAS Youth leader with a defamation suit filed on her behalf at the High Court. In her writ of summons against Selangor PAS Youth chief Syarhan Humaizi Halim, Kok, who is also the primary industries minister,...

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PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has agreed to settle his defamation suit against Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown out of court. (Bernama pic) PETALING JAYA: An out-of-court settlement between Abdul Hadi Awang and Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown will not change public perception about PAS leaders, a lawyer said today. SN Nair said the allegations...

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Minister of Primary Industries Teresa Kok has demanded an apology and RM30 million in damages from Selangor PAS youth chief over a defamatory article which alleged that she was anti-Islam. Kok, in her letter of demand dated Jan 23, through a legal firm SN Nair & Partners, claimed that Syarhan Humaizi Halim had written and published...

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Sankara Nair says a civil action suit can be taken against Najib Razak and a former minister for causing huge losses to the Malaysian Rubber Board. KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) has taken the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to task after the government retirement fund said it had done nothing wrong in its...

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Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok and LGM chairman Sankara Nair at a press conference today. Photo by Shahrin Yahya A report has been lodged to the MACC on Nov 27, 2018, “for breach of established LGM procedures” over the five-facility project which was terminated in 2018, said Kok. Photo by Shahrin Yahya For the 2010 land sale,...